Don’t miss visiting Billy Lane and his crew across from Daytona H-D during Bike Week.
This report will be wild from an array of new custom bikes, new techs due to be launched and reports from our readers. We spent the other night in bed reviewing all the reports from the Bikernet Suggestion box. We have a constant FREE contest area. Check it out. You can go in, fill out the form which gives us some notion of the riders who read Bikernet. From there you are free to make suggestions to our vast, world wide editorial staff. Finally you can request your own prize. Doesn’t mean you’ll get it, but the more creative the request, the more chances you have of making your request become a reality.
What’s the most requested editorial element? Stories from you about the bikes you build. We have a couple of ways for riders to get their stories out about riding experiences or building bikes. That’s one of the reasons we changed the bike show area into an area where you can post your own bike feature, Reader’s Showcase. You can tell the world about your machine, how it was built or any experience you’ve had with your machine. Don’t worry about how you do it. CrazyHorse will run through each piece before it’s launched.
There’s one more way you can make history or share your experiences with Bikernet. Write me at Bandit@bikernet.com. Give me a notion of what you want to share. If you can’t write at all, maybe I’ll interview you and write the story. Maybe I can coach you on your story and edit it for you. Maybe I’ll assign it to another writer. One way or another, we’ll bring your story to life. Goddamnit, that’s what we’re here for. Let’s get to the news:
DALLAS SWAP MEET MARCH 2ND – THIS SUNDAY!!!!! — The Texas Scooter Times here reminding everyone about the Texas Scooter Times upcoming Swap Meet in Dallas- March 2nd at the Historic Longhorn Ballroom!
Bikers will find motorcycle parts manufactures and distributors that travel the country, selling by the volume at deep discounts. There’ll be Motorcycle Shops that sell the good used parts that are taken off bikes in their shops when customers want to change up their rides. There’ll be Jewelry Vendors, T-Shirt Hawkers, Leather Sellers and people peddling oddities of all kinds. What ever it is you are looking for, IT’S HERE!
Live Band – Bargains – Parts & Party – Door prizes and other contests – TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS! – Don’t miss them!HOURS: Gates open at 11am – Limited Vendor Space Still Available- please call the Texas Scooter Times for reservations.For more info on a specific show and driving directions visit: www.texasscooter.com or call 254-687-9066
THE ROGUE REPORT FROM DAYTONA–The news (TV) is saying attendance and room reservations are down inDaytona Beach and they are blaming it on the economy and the pending war. BULLSHIT attendance is only down in Daytona Beach because of the high hotelrates and ever thing else.Add in the tickets for every thing you can thinkof. Hotels & Motels from Jacksonville to Orlando and then over to Melbourne(South of Daytona Beach)are welcoming the Bikers and they are coming. The Bikers are in Florida. They just are tired of the BULLSHIT in DaytonaBeach and are having their fun in the sun other places. ROGUE
MYSTERY GAS TANK– I bought a $50 tank off eBay a few months back, have been trying to ID it. Pretty sure my current tank is an old Ness Prism tank. This looks like a variation upon it. I was hoping to try this for Daytona, but I’m not going to have a chance to make the necessary repairs to it. Looks like it was clearanced for the rear rocker box (poorly), and I’d like to add a crossover line due to the angle of my frame.
Ever seen anything like it or know the origin? Obviously significantly raises my sub 2-gallon fuel capacity, and there definitely aren’t going to be too many other ones around…
–Kev
BEACH RIDE WILL LIVE AGAIN–We are proceeding with the application to Queen Mary Parks for August 31. At last after club disputes in Laughlin gave the Ventura, California an excuse to shut the Beach Ride down last year after 10 harmless years that raised money for needy kids.
The Beach Ride will now live again in Long Beach, California.
Carmela Anne Burke, MPA
Exceptional Childrens Foundation
(310) 845-8060
BIKERNET REPORTS FROM HELL–One day a guy dies and finds himself in hell. As he’s wallowing indespair, he has his first meeting with the devil…..
Satan: Why are you so glum?
Guy: What do you think? I’m in hell!
Satan: Hell’s not so bad. We actually have a lot of fun down here. Youa drinking man?
Guy: Sure, I love to drink.
Satan: Well you’re gonna love Mondays then. On Mondays all we do isdrink., tequila, Guinness, wine coolers, diet tab and fresca… wedrink till we throw up and then we drink some more! And we don’t worryabout getting a hangover, because you’re dead anyway.
Guy: Gee, that sounds great!
Satan: You a smoker?
Guy: You better believe it!
Satan: All right! You’re gonna love Tuesdays. We get the finest cigarsfrom all over the world and smoke our lungs out. If you get cancer nobiggie, you’re already dead, remember?
Guy: Wow…that’s awesome!
Satan: I bet you like to gamble.
Guy: Why yes, as a matter of fact I do.
Satan: Cause Wednesdays you can gamble all you want. Craps, Blackjack,Roulette, Poker, Slots, whatever. If you go bankrupt… you’re deadanyhow.
Satan: What about Drugs?!?
Guy: Are you kidding? Love drugs! You don’t mean…
Satan: That’s right! Thursday is drug day. Help yourself to a great bigbowl of crack, or smack. Smoke a doobie the size of a submarine. Youcan do all the drugs you want, you’re dead, who cares.
Guy: WOW! I never realized Hell was such a cool place!
Satan: You gay?
Guy: No…
Satan: UhhhhOoooh…….You’re gonna hate Fridays….
–from Rev CarlR
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SEA-TAC REFUSER RANDOM CAR SEARCHES–By Sara Kehaulani Goo and Carrie Johnson,The Washington Post.First, air travelers had to submit to an electronic wand waved over the body. Then they were asked to remove their shoes. After that, their checked luggage was opened and searched. Now, with the nation under a Code Orange alert, police are pulling over drivers as they approach airport terminals for random searches of their vehicles.
At least one major airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, said it would not comply with the directive because it ran counter to state laws prohibiting police from searching a vehicle without a specific reason. “We can’t just stop everybody, or stop every third car or every blue car,” said airport spokesman Bob Parker.
Some airport managers balked at following the directive until the TSA clarified the legal issues. In its defense, the agency pointed to several cases in which federal courts ruled that vehicles could be searched for reasons of public safety.
–from Rogue and the Seattle Times
NEW CAMEL PROJECT FROM BILLY LANE–Here’s a tease of a bike that will be unleashed in Daytona next week. Hold on for another down-home, by hand custom from Billy Lane.
SHOVELHEAD RED ? NEW IN THE GULCH–Roy Yelverton, known to thousands of motorcycle enthusiasts as Uncle Roy, is a biker writer. A 20-yr. veteran of the U.S. Navy and has run Riders Roost, in North Carolina for 12 years with his brother, Bruce Colburn.
There is an axiom for writers that states: ‘Write what you know’. And Roy does just that.
Follow Shovelhead Red through twisting roads on a two-wheeled adventure.
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